SOCIAL DEVIATIONS AND THE YUGOSLAV BLACK WAVE: MULTIPERSPECTIVITY OF DEVIANCE
SOCIAL DEVIATIONS AND THE YUGOSLAV BLACK WAVE: MULTIPERSPECTIVITY OF DEVIANCE

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes to investigate various forms of social deviations that can be related to the Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema. The analysis is structured according to the author’s typology of possible models of connection between artistic and deviant contents (1. artist as deviant; 2. presentation of deviance as a theme of an artwork; 3. work of art as a deviant phenomenon or act [Matković, 2017]). There is a complex and heterogeneous perspective of the relationship between the Black Wave and the sphere of social deviance manifest at several different levels that provide the basis for a conclusion that there is multiperspectivity of social deviance connected to this artistic orientation. Among other things, it is pointed out that the most energetic socio-political reactions were provoked by presentations of social deviations with political connotations and those related to the dissatisfaction of different categories of population in Yugoslav society that directly threatened the interests of the official state ideology and the ruling regime, while the cinematographic treatment of socio-pathological phenomena in the narrow sense being undesirable nonetheless, was still tolerated and subjected to repression of lower intensity.

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